Introducing beta releases of Elasticsearch and Kibana Docker images!

Introducing Docker images for Elasticsearch and Kibana

Beta releases of the Elasticsearch and Kibana Docker images are here!
They track the latest versions of Elasticsearch and Kibana 5.0 and are pre-installed with our awesome x-pack extension!
The images are hosted on Elastic’s own Docker Registry.

Instructions can be found on the elasticsearch-docker and kibana-docker GitHub pages, but let’s see how easy it is to launch an Elasticsearch + Kibana stack with them.

Back to the Kibana UI, let’s configure an index pattern for the data. Enter users for the index name and untick Index contains time-based events, as shown below:

Click “create” and now you can view the inserted data in the Kibana Discover page:

Terminating your containers is as simple as docker-compose down; this will not destroy the Elasticsearch data volume so if you docker-compose up again your data will still be present. To terminate the containers and the data volume use docker-compose down -v instead.

The images are in beta, and we do not advise you to run beta software in production. However there are a number of best practices that we have compiled on the GitHub page.